open sea

Chapter 337 Bloodline

Chen Ju stopped, and his silence made Chen Mu realize that he had talked too much - no one cared what he wanted to do, others just wanted to know if he knew what he was doing.

Xu Wei's hand-translated Xiyi's "Seaman's Treasure Book" was sent back by Chen Mu. Apart from asking Xu Wei to help him write an official document and battle report for the cabinet, Chen Mu had almost nothing to use this talented person.

Mr. Xu, who thought he was a military adviser, was ordered to write a book in Manila, and included the essence of Yu, Qi and other famous southern naval battles in the new book. Chen Mu named it "New Book of Naval War" and asked him to compile it before sending it Chen Mu took a look at it, and after being corrected, sent it to Guangdong Jiangwu Naval Academy as a teaching material.

It is not easy to be a staff member of the Chen shogunate.

This handsome man has almost no time to use others in military strategy, because he and his staff are blind to the Philippines and basically know nothing.

The shipyard and cannon foundry in Manila are precious treasures given to Chen Mu by Salcedo. Manila has no shortage of wood, let alone craftsmen.The Spaniards used Chinese craftsmen here, from city building to shipbuilding and cannon building. They came from the most powerful empire in East Asia. They have the best craftsmanship and are competent for almost all tasks except design drawings.

The Spanish blueprints make up for the shortcomings of the Chinese craftsmen. From bastions to Galen ships, from artillery to heavy guns, there are all blueprints. There are even captured Spanish blacksmiths who are willing to work for Chen Mu, as long as they are not allowed to He went to build the city wall and worked hard.

However, the Spanish blacksmith is actually not very useful in craftsmanship. His name is Luis, and his father's and mother's surnames are too long for Chen Mu to remember.In Spain, this name is basically the same as Deng Zilong's boat, which obviously lacks the love of his parents and reveals his low-born background.

When Chen Mu asked, it was indeed the case. He was a half-way home blacksmith, his father was a farmer, he was conscripted into the army after several years of iron making, and after two years of fighting, he was conscripted to serve as a shipwright on Captain Salcedo’s ship. They arrived at Chen Mu's prison.

Chen Mu's army craftsmen know more about making weapons than he does, but he is very versatile. It is not easy to be a blacksmith in the village of the lord in Spain. He can write and calculate. There is his very prominent blacksmith shop in the center.

In addition to being a craftsman, he was also a dentist, veterinarian, surgeon, livestock store, and business intermediary for farmers. He was appointed as the village chief and church director of Binodo, although only for three days.

It took three days for the Luzon people and Han people in Binodo to elect him, one day for the Spanish city magistrate in Wangcheng to make a ruling, and after three days as village chief, Chen Mu went into the city.

General Chen accidentally ruined the Spanish dream of a blacksmith to realize the class jump.

But it doesn't matter, now Louis is the deputy of Zhao Shizhen, the magistrate of Manila, and is mainly responsible for collecting taxes and organizing iron and wood raw materials for sailboats and artillery.

The shipyard in Manila is very large, and the Spaniards have huge ambitions in the eastern colonies. It seems that this shipyard was specially built for the production of galleon ships.However, it may be that the time is short and the necessary equipment for building a large ship is not perfect, but this is not a big problem for Chen Mu - he has no plan to build a large ship in Manila at all.

He only needs the Manila shipyard to provide him with a continuous supply of small shark boats in a year, and the big boats will still be built by Nanyangwei and Guangdong.

Before the arrival of July, he met Lin Daogan whose fleet was intercepted in Manila, and another brave and skilled pirate joined him.But he didn't let Lin Daogan join Lin Feng, he had a better place to go.

The pirate leader who came from Fujian has nearly a hundred white boats of four hundred materials, more than 2000 old and new pirates, and more than a thousand women and children. Seed and rations, this is an excellent immigrant team.

Chen Mu appointed Lin Daogan as Sanyu Qianhu, ordered him to land on Sanyu with his subordinates, allowed him to wipe out the western barbarians on the island, set up three thousand households, and recommended two thousand households to train troops in Sanyu agricultural reclamation. Everything Spanish.

Because Chen Mu's next goal is Mindoro Island in the south of Luzon Island, which is a large island that produces gold and copper.The three islands are the three islands in the southwest of Mindoro. They are strategic islands guarding the route. With Lin Daogan there, they can prevent the Spanish reinforcements from Malays or support the war on Mindoro in advance.

However, Chen Mu was not in a hurry to send troops to Mindoro Island, because it had been raining since the end of June.

The rain in the Philippines is worrying, because Chen Mu doesn't know which will come first, the rainy season or the typhoon, so he doesn't plan to continue to advance south, but just sends troops to sweep across Luzon Island to help Suleiman eliminate the rebel tribes on the island, and then Measure the land and make tax laws.

This is such a headache.

"You don't even measure the land. How did Luzon collect taxes in the past?"

Chen Mu listened to Zhao Shizhen's recent work report, put down the Ming Dynasty bird gun aimed at the haystack, turned around and looked at Zhao Shizhen helplessly.

He believes in Zhao Shizhen's talent. Although he is not a Jinshi, he has been studying in the Imperial Academy for more than a year. However, he never thought that governing the region should start with measuring the land, and the tax law is even more blank.

"In the past, the Luzon Kingdom was ruled by several chiefs. To the south of Manila was Tangdu, and along the coast of Manila to the island of Chenlai, Suleiman was the leader; to the east and across the mountains were other chiefs. Each collects the tax of their respective tribes, more in years of abundance and less in times of famine, the last time the land was measured was in the year of Yongle..."

"Wait, wait." Chen Mu raised his hand and approached Zhao Shizhen and asked, "They don't collect taxes uniformly, so how do Xiyi collect taxes here?"

I don’t know what Chen Mu’s words made Zhao Shizhen think of. Secretary Zhao, no, Zhao Zhixian glanced at Louis angrily, and said to Chen Mu: “Minggong Mingjian, Xiyi is shameless, they collect taxes according to race and country. It depends! They only collect business taxes from Manila, and the nobles are distributed to various places around Manila and enjoy fiefdoms, which allow them to eat and drink enough."

"There is no tax for Xiyi trading in Manila, half-race Xiyi pays double tax, Luzon people and mixed-race Han people pay double tax, we Han people pay four times tax!"

Zhao Shizhen raised four fingers exaggeratedly, and stared round his eyes. Chen Mu rarely saw a scholar with a crooked skill tree so filled with righteous indignation, but his heart was very calm. The unequal treatment is only to be expected.

He also bullied the Portuguese in Haojing, because he grasped the lifeblood of those businessmen, even if they paid more taxes, they could still make money, and the Portuguese would not object, just like the Han merchants in the Philippines.

"Han people pay four times the tax, why can mixed-race Han people pay half of the tax, Mr. Louis." Even though he had expected it, Chen Mu was still unhappy. He looked at Louis with an unfriendly expression on his neck and said, "You Can you answer this question for me?"

"My lord, I'm just a blacksmith. I don't understand. I've only heard a little bit about it." Louis' life was in Chen Mu's hands. He was extremely afraid of this young biological general, and he stammered: " In New Spain, the natives resisted fiercely, and although they were suppressed, people feared that they would rebel again decades later, after all, we have few people...so."

"Kill men, turn wives and daughters into slaves, let their descendants think they have noble blood, to erase their will to resist, because of this, many people have the sore Spanish disease."

Chen Mu raised a finger and tapped his temple, looked at Zhao Shizhen, then looked at Louis, and said: "I remember, the letter on the Spanish ship, some of you want to attack Daming, and you also want to have children with our women. Bar?"

"damn it."

"When the hozen wearing the crown on the Iberian Peninsula pays back the money they owe me, all ports in Ming Dynasty will charge them ten times the tax. These cheap things!"

　Good morning, today is a syphilis origin tip.

　　syphilis:

　　The French called it "Naples disease"; the Neapolitans retorted and insulted the French ancestors and called it "Gaul disease".

　　Italians, British and Germans called it the "French disease" because it was brought back by those who served in the army in France;

　　Russia called it a "Polish disease" because it came from Poland;
　　Poland calls it the "German disease," and Denmark, Portugal, and parts of northern Africa call it the "Spanish disease."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)